My 2013 in review, art edition

Welcome to my year 

My 2013 in review with (almost) no art

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Enter a Dragon

Tricky Kitty fun

I wasn't really intenting this to be something for Halloween, but by the end that's really what he wanted to be for.  Ah well, what can you do with a little tricky kitty when it has it's own ideas?

hatchling

I mad a Moonkin Hatchling.  This one is styled after the clay ones I did a while ago and not entirely meant to look like the in game pet.

the lantern

So, the current college I'm working at has a strong tradition with lanterns, so i stiched one up for myself and put 4 different images on the sides.  sadly i only have the jack-o-lantern side for a photo.

Gift given

My friend was able to successfully take my Bifur plushie from Philadelphia to Atlanta and give it to actor William Kircher at Dragon*con the last weekend of August.

Mr. Kircher liked it so much I got a FREE autograph from him. Or I will once my friend gets its mailed out to me. 

The following day, at the 3rd panel the actors did, my plushie was one of a handful mr. Kircher showed off to the crowd. I found out last night that quite a few people got photos of it. 

Made my night, let me tell you!!

Here are some of the photos my friend took. The first one is of a mutual friend who doesn't like the wide world

Knowing what she looks like so I masked her. 

The Cook

My next dwarf is Bombue!  Lets get to it!

The Advisor

Give her a pony

So, I decided to make my best friend a pony plushie for her birthday this year.  Since i'm being crafty and all.  Got the pattern from Voodoo-Tiki over at Deviantart.

Dwarrow, this is the scribe

My second Dwarrow from the Hobbit.  Ori, brother to Dori and Nori.

Here we have Ori's progression from sketch to finish.

Something's Fishy

so, I had a scrap of red felt and I wanted to see if I could needle felt anything onto it.  Some how an eye took shape...and then myself and 2 otehr people said that once the black got added to it it really reminded us of those gold fish from Fantasia.

So that got me thinking and so I went over the peach with blues and greens, purple and white and tada! Sort of a fish, but still an eye.  I like the way it turned out.

owls...or bunnies?

a needle felted owl lantern, and what it's really supposed to look like.

Dwarrow, this is why they live so long

They live so long because they take so long to make!  Mahal, I know your pain now!

This is Bifur from the Hobbit.  The cousin of Bofur (the one with the hat) and Bombur (the heaviest one).  I wanted to do Bifur because I think he is one of the ones that gets the least amount of recognition.  Aside from his hair not looking as wild as it did in the sketch, i'm please with how he turned out.  ^_^

Thundercats, HO!

So, a friend asked why, if I got by "Sarabi" on line, have I not drawn her in the 2011 Thundercats style.  I couldn't give her an answer, so I drew Sarabi!me as a thundercat.  near as I can tell, all lions have red hair in the reboot.  o.O

So here, have a head shot and a full body.  =)

another something new

My first try at needle felting. The smaller cat is made from sculpey. 


Took about three hours for the felty.

Fightin' Phills for a fantastic wedding

A wedding gift for two women I don’t know, but my best friend is thrilled to be going to their wedding tomorrow. 
She could only get them a gift card to someplace, so I offered to etch something for them. 

They both love the Phillies baseball team, but one is a cat person while the other is a dog person. 
The “P” is the short logo for the Phillies and there is a silhouette of a cat and dog head respectively in each “P”

My friend thinks the couple will really like them. ^_^ v

more sewing, ipad version

So, I've been doing...stuff. this is the end result of ...stuff. it fits my iPad with its logitech keyboard. the smart case + iPad is a little tight, but i'm ok with this as the sleeve is for the iPad w/ keyboard for ACen.

Half way

Hey half finished phone case in felt. I still need to make a flap to cover the top of it.

But what do you all think?

More sewing?!

I really don't know what's come over me.

more etched glass

a present for a friend that is helping me with a few things. The box I ended up having to get to send other things down to her turned out to be bigger then I had intended, so now I’m trying to fill it up some more. ^_^;; oops
Thus, a candle holder (you put a floating candle in it…with water) and tada. I had a stencil from ‘08 when I made something else for another friend of the Iron Man face plate from the first movie. I double checked with friend 1 to see if it would be ok if I used the stencil again, and she said yes, and this happened.

Derailed detachment

So, when I was taking the train into the city for college I would draw in a sketch book and then post the doodles on deviantart. All of those pieces were titled "derailed detachment."
This girl was 90% done on the train, so the name stays.

I've been reading a fair few fan fics where the characters from any of my fandoms have their souls visible via wings. So, a random girl with wings to get it out of my system.

More sewing?!

I have/had a bunch of stuff to the left of my keyboard that I eventually need to finish painting, but am being lazy about it. So, they sit there and collect dust and get in my way…and I have a short stack of felt on my laptop also collecting dust…and some wire and chain…/lightbulb

Green bag looking thing!! I wasn’t originally going to do anything to the opening, but for whatever reason the Hulk popped into my head and went and burgled purple thread from my mother (I asked her for it, so I think she’s under the impression that she’s getting it back…sorry mom). Some quick stitches around the opening in a fairly haphazard way and finished. It can be haphazard because its the hulk that insipid me. =D 
The holes in the corners for the wire ended up being pierced with my xacto knife and then the wire was hooked through. Added the chain so it could hang and be really out of my way and done!

A new frontier

You should all be worried. I picked up needle, thread, and felt and turned them into something.

The brown one was my first attempt this passed Saturday, the 30th of march. The poor thing hung in there though.

The white and grey one was the one I did last night. My "teacher" told me there was a good bit of improvement. ^_^

I want to try another one, but I'm not sure if I want it to be another kitty type. Any ideas?

...and again

2 new paint jobs for Bag End and the party tree.
The entire lot I worked on over the weekend of the 9th and 10th of March.
And lastly, 3 shots of the 9 knives I did for the KWF that will and will not be going to acen. We even have a KWFb now. XD. He's an honorary member. Four of the knives still need their fronts clear coated, four others need touch ups where I had to hold them with my fingers, and one (the original) it totally done. 😸

The Bag End doors will get put on etsy. Two of them a getting pin clasps put on their backs...here's to hoping that that goes well.

...and back again.

So, here is the finished Bag End doors, now more then one, the scene of Bag End and the party tree that I made for a friend for valentines day because it makes me forever sad to read the posts she writes every year about bad things happening to her on the 14th.

Not this year, baby! Below is a screen shot of her reaction. ^_^ I think it also might have been my own best valentines day because of this. Nothing is better then getting to surprise a good friend and being rewarded with their utter happiness at the gift, 😸

That silver and black piece that is mixed in with the Bag End things is the ring that Thorin Oakenshield has in the movie. I need to fix the back up and then clean coat that and it'll be done.

I want to make things that represent Bifur and Bofur, but aside from Bofur's hat I'm not sure what to do. Ideas?